SURFnet holds a biannual conference for its connected institutions, to provide overviews of services, innovation and best practices, as well as an opportunity to meet each other face-to-face.
The conference held May 14-15, 2008 in Noordwijkerhout attracted 300 attendees representing Dutch institutions of higher education and research. CineGrid co-founder Laurin Herr delivered the keynote “Building a New User Community for Very High Quality Media Applications on Very High Speed Networks,” during which CineGrid 4K content was streamed and JPEG 2000 decoded in real time for projection on a large screen with 5.1 surround sound in the auditorium. The highlight was the streaming of the new, never-before-seen 4K animation of the new GLIF 2008 map.
The GLIF map was visualized, animated and rendered in full-color at 4K by Robert Patterson of UIUC/NCSA. The rendered, uncompressed 4K frames were transferred over the Illinois I-WIRE from NCSA to StarLight in Chicago and then via CAVEwave to UCSD/Calit2 in San Diego for JPEG 2000 compression and quality-assurance 4K screening in the Calit2 auditorium. The compressed files were then transferred back over CAVEwave from Calit2 to StarLight, and then over the SURFnet transatlantic link to servers at University of Amsterdam in preparation for the CineGrid keynote at the SURFnet meeting.
(Note: While this demonstration did not use TransLight/StarLight, it leveraged investments from the Netherlands for international transatlantic connectivity.)
URL:
www.cinegrid.org
www.surfnet.nl
Collaborators:
Netherlands:
SURFnet; University of Amsterdam
USA:
Calit2/UCSD; EVL/UIC; NCSA/UIUC; CineGrid; StarLight
